The University of South Carolina on Saturday presented a posthumous degree to the parents of Samantha Josephson, a USC student who was found dead after getting into a car she thought was her ride-share.University President Harris Pastides said he would present the degree immediately after the university's commencement ceremony in Columbia."We must ensure what happened to Samantha never happens again to any college student or, indeed, any person," Pastides said. A chair draped with what would have been her cap and gown sat at the ceremony. "Asking, 'What's my name?' before getting into a ride-share vehicle will save lives and must become as automatic to you as buckling our seat belts when we get behind the wheel of a car," he said.Pastides then asked the crowd to repeat the phrase, "What's my name?"Josephson, a senior from New Jersey, had called for an Uber around 2 a.m. March 29 in Columbia outside a bar.She was last seen getting into a black vehicle that was not her Uber. Her body was found with multiple sharp force injuries 14 hours later in a field about 90 miles away, authorities said.Police arrested Nathaniel David Rowland on murder and kidnapping charges after an officer saw him driving a vehicle that matched the one seen in the surveillance video.Josephson's blood was found in the car's passenger side and the trunk and her cellphone was in the passenger compartment, authorities said.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (CNN) —

The University of South Carolina on Saturday presented a posthumous degree to the parents of Samantha Josephson, a USC student who was found dead after getting into a car she thought was her ride-share.

University President Harris Pastides said he would present the degree immediately after the university's commencement ceremony in Columbia.